A big hotfix list for the first big patch of Storm Legion.

RIFT 2.0 Hotfix #2 - 8:00am PST 11/20/12 [NA] - 2:00am GMT 21/11/12 [EU]

• GENERAL
• Fixed a world crash issue that plagued both NA and EU region shards through the weekend.
• Upgradable items can now be upgraded while equipped.
• Achievements that are cumulative/chained - such as 'Craft 50,000 items' which should have credit for completing the previous achievements in the chain - should be properly restored with your prior contributions instead of being reset to zero.
• The hide-other-players toggle now also hides their pets.
• Fixed some Dimension items and capes not showing properly for various people.
• LFG: Dungeons list now separates Expert Dungeons into Classic and Storm Legion lists.
• Fixed an issue where characters could end up in the queue for Storm Legion Warfronts even if they didn't have Storm Legion.
• Elven females should only shout once at character select while dual wielding, not twice! YAHHH~!
• Fixed an overly high drop rate for Epic essences in Storm Legion.

ZONES

• Many many Storm Legion quests that did not have minimum level requirements to obtain now do so - with the earliest ones available at 48+.
• Adjusted Zone Event colossi hit points to better scale with player damage and population - higher lows and lower highs on their hit point amounts.
• Achievement: Operation Landfall: Should now be granted at the completion of the Operation Landfall zone event.
• Revealing areas on the map near oceans will now clear all the way to the water, even though you may not be able to physically go there.

HUNT RIFTS/QUESTS

• Increased minimum required level on Great Hunt Rift quests to 60 from 50.
• Reactive Shield - Hunt Rift boss ability: Shaved off half of the absorb percentage per player.
• Normal Hunt Rift bosses are now guaranteed to drop Empyreal Stone.
• Echoes of Deceit: Fixed some quest objects being underground.
• Fixed Hunt Rift lures being consumed when turning in the Planar Translocation and Night of the Hunter quests.

ASHORA

• Riches of the Biofoundry: Updated so this is a quest granted by an item dropped by Volan - Volan's drop is now a Quest Item.
• Zone Event: Dreams of Blood and Bone: Cannons now have mouseover tooltips!
• Daily quests in Ashora should be granting correct rewards.
• Onslaught: Fixed map markers for Arjuros and Optheron. Moved Zavari closer to the wardstone in Broken Marsh.
• IA: A Clear Conscience: Fixed an issue where completing this IA could kick players out of the IA group.

KINGSWARD

• IA: The All Clear Signal: Academy Guards should no longer patrol the survivor turn-in area.
• Tower of Dawn: Fixed entry portal to allow Soul Walking characters to re-enter.

MORBAN

• Circuit Shorting: Fixed consoles becoming permanently unusable. Additional quest fixes incoming.

PELLADANE

• Deadly Surprise: Storm Legion soldiers who run toward the rigged chests, and the chests themselves, now despawn if they are not killed by the explosion.

SERATOS

• Change of Pace: Removed incorrect quest reward.
• Disable the Trap: Now shares objective updates with your group.
• Friendly Fire: Added correct quest reward.
• A Meeting of Minds, Thought Police, Friendly Fire: Adjusted the polymorph to address players not being transformed as intended.
• IA: Corrected the location placements and contribution distances for Adventures.
• Nutritious, not Delicious: Made changes to the quest to prevent some player pets from being caught in a death loop.

DUNGEONS

• Reduced boss health in Standard dungeons in order to shorten average encounter length.
• Added first-completion rewards to dungeons that were missing it - Exodus of the Storm Queen, Storm Breaker Protocol, Unhallowed Boneforge, Archive of Flesh, and Empyrean Core.

EXODUS OF THE STORM QUEEN

• Standard: General population mobs now drop proper loot! [Fix is still incoming for Expert.]

GOLEM FOUNDRY

• Manslaughter: Addressed issue where Manslaughter can become stuck casting Rotary Assault Cannon.
• Removed name display from Manslaughter's gel pools.

STORM BREAKER PROTOCOL

• Slagstorm's damage shield VFX now last the entire duration of the effect.
• In the Telaphalon fight, Batua now says his wave completion line only once.
• Storm Breakers can now move while using Robo Rumble! They also move slightly faster.
• Slightly reduced general mob population.

UNHALLOWED BONEFORGE

• Fixed the entry teleporter.
• Fixed fight boundaries for Bruzhail so the AoEs can only be dodged by going through the empty lane.
• Adjusted borders around Ahgnox the Corpsekeeper's fight space to help keep him from getting stuck in collision when charging.
• Reduced aggro distance on the Necrotic Throne.
• You should no longer remain in combat after defeating Avoxcia.

COMBAT

• Fury of the Ascended, Holy Champion, and Anti-Planar Augmentation now deal 20% increased damage against Colossi (reduced from 200%). The 200% damage increase against Invasions is unchanged.
• Updated a bunch of Soul Preset auto-hotbar layouts.

MAGE

CHLOROMANCER

• Consuming Boon of Life with an instant-cast Nature's Touch will now also consume the proc from Eldritch Armor.

NECROMANCER

• Fixed damage values for Shadow Revenant's Scourge Bolt and Oblivion rank 7 - these two damage values had been swapped.

STORMCALLER

• Lightning Conductor: Damage bonus to Electrocute, Thunderbolt and Raging Storm is now 5/10% if your target is under Hypothermia.
• Tempest Armor: Now increases single target damage by 15% in addition to its previous effects.

ROGUE

• The ability names on the level 60 Synergy Crystals have been renamed from Zardonis' Crystal to T'Scain's Crystal.
• Fixed the incorrect Planar Attunement tooltips for which weapon mastery each planar type enhances.

MARKSMAN

• Collateral Damage: Fixed a tooltip bug, Collateral Damage increases AoE ranged weapon attack damage by 4-12%, not 3-9%.

RIFTSTALKER

• Boosted Recovery: Fixed a bug where this is triggered even while you are dead.

SABOTEUR

• Adhesive Bomb: Now reduces movement speed by 30%, down from 70% - similar to other player snares.

TACTICIAN

• Glacial Torrent: Now reduces movement speed by 30%, down from 50%, similar to other player snares. Also triggers immunity to further application of the snare effect from Glacial Torrent for 12 seconds.

WARRIOR

• Fixed the incorrect Planar Attunement tooltips for which weapon mastery each planar type enhances.

CHAMPION

• Bladefury: Fixed a bug where ranks 9 and 10 did too little damage.

PALADIN

• Blessed Aegis: Now also increases Endurance by 5%.

PARAGON

• Setting Moon: Damage buff reduced to 15%.
• Strike Like Iron: Damage buff reduced to 5-15%.
• Unleashed: Buff reduced to 3% per stack.
• Flurry: Damage increased.

REAVER

• Tempered Constitution: Now increases Endurance by 2% per point.
• Binding of Devouring Darkness: Now also increases Endurance by 5%.

RIFTBLADE

• Elemental Precision: Now only affects Elemental abilities.

TEMPEST

• Fixed a bug causing Light Refraction to become stuck on a character after a server crash.
• Bioelectric Transfer has been removed, and replaced with Electricity Cascade, a Finisher DoT that also increases the damage the target takes from Lightning Torrent and Storm Torrent.
• Quick Recharge: Now works on both Charged Pulse and Double Pulse.
• Charged Pulse, Double Pulse: Cooldowns increased to 20 seconds.
• Dual Pulse: Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds.
• Stormbringer: Now also works on Electricity Cascade.
• Wavelength: No longer enhances outgoing damage.
• Enhanced Conductivity: Now only affects non-physical abilities.

VOID KNIGHT

• Empowerment: Now increases Endurance by 2% per point.

PVP/WARFRONTS

• Increased experience granted from completing level 50+ Warfronts.
• Winning Random Warfronts after the 7 Weekly bonuses have been depleted will now grant bonus experience.
• Lowered the level of NPCs in Port Scion for the 50-54 and 55-59 brackets.
• Riftstalker: Planar Rejuvenation, Defer Death: Reduced effectiveness in PvP combat.
• Warden: Tidal Surge: Reduced the bonus damage to 25% in PvP combat.
• Warriors: Healing values on Life's Rapture, Touch of Life, Fusion of Flesh, and No Permission to Die have been halved in PvP.
• Cabalist: Reduced the bonus damage when using Tyranny of Death, Bound Fate, or Disintegration in combination with Obliterate in PvP combat. [This looked like a fail in testing but was not! Updated patch notes.]

DIMENSIONS

• Removed the level limit on the Dormant Core dimension.
• Replaced the Leave Dimension icon in the alert tray - now a door with an arrow, not wine glasses.
• The Dimension item Stalked Pustule is now resizable.

CRAFTING

• Corrected the training costs on all gathering profession recipes that had no cost to train.
• Corrected pricing on Apothecary Planar scrolls. Fixed the ones that weren't granting recipes.
• Excellent Dexterity Serum: Now granting the correct amount of Dexterity.
• Updated the rates for acquiring Major Catalysts from Rifts, Invasions, and Footholds from level 55-60.
• Fishing: Storm Legion fishing lures and recipe scrolls no longer have level limits, much like other fishing lures and recipes.
• Fishing: Corrected text on Timed Magnetic Lure - previously it said it only worked in Mathosia, which was WRONG!
• Fishing: Corrected text on Enduring Magnetic Lure. It lasts for 15 minutes, not 10.